Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VBScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VBScript over the 6 months to 5 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 632 832 942
Rank change year-on-year +200 +110 -270
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 104 243 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.48% 0.43% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 66 164 128
10th Percentile £44,750 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,525 £53,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +7.50% +3.09%
75th Percentile £73,813 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,250 £73,375 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,525 £52,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +7.67% +31.25% -11.11%

All Programming Languages
UK

VBScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,694 56,872 66,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.61% 45.80% 52.13%
Number of salaries quoted 16,964 36,172 45,025
10th Percentile £39,750 £38,386 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,131 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VBScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VBScript.

Salary trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBScript over the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

Salary histogram for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the UK over the 6 months to 5 December 2023. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +210 97 £56,525 +2.77% 28
UK excluding London +138 68 £56,525 +7.67% 22
South East +148 56 £60,000 - 10
Work from Home +169 49 £56,525 +8.18% 9
London +208 18 £65,000 +18.18% 7
West Midlands +108 6 £46,000 -12.38% 1
Midlands +100 6 £46,000 -8.00% 5
Scotland +56 2 £52,000 +1.46% 1
Wales +16 2 £42,500 -12.37%
North of England +129 1 £40,000 +24.20% 5
Yorkshire +92 1 £40,000 +33.33% 2
South West +58 1 £46,500 -22.50% 1

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (8.65%) SharePoint
2 8 (7.69%) Confluence
3 2 (1.92%) MS Exchange
4 1 (0.96%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.96%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) PlanetPress Connect
Cloud Services
1 67 (64.42%) Azure
2 28 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (25.96%) Entra ID
4 24 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (21.15%) Azure Monitor
5 22 (21.15%) Azure Storage
6 7 (6.73%) BlazeMeter
7 4 (3.85%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.92%) SaaS
8 2 (1.92%) TestFlight
9 1 (0.96%) AWS
9 1 (0.96%) GitHub
9 1 (0.96%) IaaS
9 1 (0.96%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.96%) PaaS
9 1 (0.96%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.96%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.96%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 29 (27.88%) Firewall
2 26 (25.00%) DHCP
2 26 (25.00%) DNS
3 4 (3.85%) NetScaler
4 3 (2.88%) LAN
4 3 (2.88%) SAN
4 3 (2.88%) Wireless
5 2 (1.92%) Internet
5 2 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.92%) VLAN
5 2 (1.92%) VPN
6 1 (0.96%) BGP
6 1 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.96%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.96%) Intranet
6 1 (0.96%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.96%) IPsec
6 1 (0.96%) Network Security
6 1 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.96%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.04%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (6.73%) Oracle Database
3 7 (6.73%) Oracle Database 10g
3 7 (6.73%) Oracle Database 11g
4 6 (5.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.88%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.88%) Power BI
5 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.92%) OLTP
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.96%) MySQL
7 1 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 23 (22.12%) Robot Framework
1 23 (22.12%) Selenium
2 11 (10.58%) Axure RP
3 8 (7.69%) JIRA
4 7 (6.73%) Cucumber
4 7 (6.73%) eggPlant
4 7 (6.73%) JMeter
4 7 (6.73%) LoadRunner
4 7 (6.73%) Postman
4 7 (6.73%) REST Assured
4 7 (6.73%) SoapUI
4 7 (6.73%) The Grinder
5 5 (4.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (4.81%) Visual Studio
6 4 (3.85%) Git
7 2 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
General
1 33 (31.73%) Social Skills
2 28 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.62%) Finance
4 7 (6.73%) Banking
4 7 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.96%) Automotive
7 1 (0.96%) Legal
7 1 (0.96%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (24.04%) Analyst
2 23 (22.12%) Applications Engineer
2 23 (22.12%) Solutions Analyst
3 15 (14.42%) Developer
4 13 (12.50%) Active Directory Specialist
4 13 (12.50%) Active Directory Support
5 11 (10.58%) Azure Specialist
5 11 (10.58%) Lead
6 10 (9.62%) Support Specialist
7 8 (7.69%) Senior
8 7 (6.73%) Automation Test Lead
8 7 (6.73%) Test Leader
9 6 (5.77%) SQL Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Administrator
11 4 (3.85%) DBA
11 4 (3.85%) SQL DBA
11 4 (3.85%) Support Engineer
12 3 (2.88%) C# Developer
12 3 (2.88%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.46%) .NET
2 13 (12.50%) ARM Templates
3 11 (10.58%) HTML
4 8 (7.69%) ASP.NET
5 7 (6.73%) Gherkin
5 7 (6.73%) Middleware
6 6 (5.77%) Web Services
6 6 (5.77%) XML
7 5 (4.81%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.81%) jQuery
7 5 (4.81%) React
7 5 (4.81%) WSH
8 4 (3.85%) CSS
9 3 (2.88%) Blazor
10 2 (1.92%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.92%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (1.92%) SOAP
10 2 (1.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 1 (0.96%) CSS3
11 1 (0.96%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.08%) Client/Server
2 22 (21.15%) PKI
3 13 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (7.69%) Clustering
5 7 (6.73%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.85%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.85%) Replication
7 3 (2.88%) SCADA
8 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.92%) Housing Association
8 2 (1.92%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.96%) CMDB
9 1 (0.96%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 69 (66.35%) Windows
2 44 (42.31%) Windows Server
3 32 (30.77%) Linux
4 26 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (16.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (13.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (5.77%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (5.77%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (4.81%) Windows 10
9 3 (2.88%) Mac OS
9 3 (2.88%) SUSE
9 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (2.88%) Windows XP
10 2 (1.92%) Android
10 2 (1.92%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.92%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (51.92%) Agile
2 47 (45.19%) DevOps
2 47 (45.19%) Release Management
3 32 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 31 (29.81%) Scrum
5 26 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 26 (25.00%) ITIL
6 24 (23.08%) Service Management
7 23 (22.12%) Application Packaging
7 23 (22.12%) Application Virtualisation
7 23 (22.12%) Identity Management
7 23 (22.12%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 22 (21.15%) Analytics
8 22 (21.15%) Log Analytics
8 22 (21.15%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 22 (21.15%) Privileged Identity Management
8 22 (21.15%) RBAC
9 13 (12.50%) CI/CD
10 10 (9.62%) Mentoring
10 10 (9.62%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 83 (79.81%) PowerShell
2 45 (43.27%) C#
3 42 (40.38%) VB
4 33 (31.73%) Python
5 24 (23.08%) SQL
6 19 (18.27%) JavaScript
7 16 (15.38%) T-SQL
8 13 (12.50%) Bicep
9 10 (9.62%) Java
10 8 (7.69%) C
11 7 (6.73%) VBA
12 6 (5.77%) PL/SQL
13 4 (3.85%) VB.NET
14 2 (1.92%) C++
14 2 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (1.92%) Objective-C
14 2 (1.92%) Swift
14 2 (1.92%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.96%) PHP
15 1 (0.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 24 (23.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 24 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 18 (17.31%) Degree
5 11 (10.58%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.88%) CCA
6 3 (2.88%) Citrix Certification
6 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.92%) MCSA
7 2 (1.92%) MCSE
8 1 (0.96%) ACCA
8 1 (0.96%) MCDBA
8 1 (0.96%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.96%) QA
2 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (33.65%) Active Directory
2 33 (31.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (24.04%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (21.15%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (9.62%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.92%) vSphere
7 1 (0.96%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 28 (26.92%) Microsoft Intune
1 28 (26.92%) SCCM
2 25 (24.04%) WSUS
3 24 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 24 (23.08%) SCOM
4 22 (21.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 7 (6.73%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (2.88%) HP SIM
7 3 (2.88%) OpenView
8 1 (0.96%) Nmap
Vendors
1 39 (37.50%) VMware
2 32 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.58%) HP
4 8 (7.69%) Oracle
5 5 (4.81%) Citrix
5 5 (4.81%) Unisys
6 4 (3.85%) Cisco
7 3 (2.88%) ArcSight
7 3 (2.88%) Meraki
7 3 (2.88%) NetApp
8 2 (1.92%) Databricks
8 2 (1.92%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.96%) Aruba
9 1 (0.96%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.96%) eFront
9 1 (0.96%) Lotus
9 1 (0.96%) ProCurve
9 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.96%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.96%) UiPath